seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:03 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Hi.
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:55:34 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote
Search is case insensitive, list is a search. However packages are
case sensitive. While we don't /currently/ have a Miro and a miro,
the rpm database would allow for it, thus install/removal actions
need to be case sensitive.
How about "try case sensitive first, and insensitive if the first does
not turn up anything"?
yes, b/c we love it so much when computer programs try to think for us.
They already do in a lot of occasions anyway. Is there a real reason not
to do this? I always hated finding out that some package have
capitalizations for no obvious reasons. MySQL or mysql or Mysql... Being
able to just type yum install mysql without having to worry about the
specifics would be nice.
yes, b/c it is a really bad idea.
much like having: rm -rf foo actually be case insensitive.
I understood you think it is a bad idea but if yum already checks first
to see if there is a perfect match and then does a more fuzzy search, I
don't see a problem with it. There are people who do yum -y remove foo
and then blame yum. I think your rm -rf example is similar.
There is a real need to solve the problem that OP talks about. It has
bitten me more than once including precisely the example cited: Miro. I
am not sure what would be the best solution though. Debian does it by
enforcing lower case on all their packages IIRC.
Rahul
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